Michigan State News

Thb steam-boiler in the large fruit-drying establishment of Charles Loose & Spn, at Monroe, exploded with such terrific forcé, a few days sinee, as to utterly demolish all the buildings, killing turee persons and seriously woiindmg about twenty others. The explosión is attributed to the carelessness of the engineer, who paid the penalty of nis act with bis life. Portions of the building were thrown a hundred feet into the air, white a large piece was thrown nearly across the river Raisin. A barn sixty feet distant and two valuable carriages contained in it, were complctely destroyed. The loss to Loose & Son will exceod $5,000, besides the interruption of a very profitable season's business. At Detroit the other night Augustus Renard, watehman at the Michigan Central Railroad shops, went to a cauldron in one of the car-houses where water for car wasbing is heated, and aat on the edge ot the kettle while his coffee was getting hot in the water. During his wait he feil asleep and tumbled info the boiling water of the cauldron. He was fatally burned. The State High Court of the Order of Foresters, at its late session in Jackson, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: State High ChieE Ranger, Louis Zurder, Grand Rapids; State Vice Chief Ranger, E. Shulte, Jackson ; State High Secretary, J. W. Johnston, Lawton ; State High Treasurer, .1. 11. Roberts, Grand Rapids; State High Seuior Warden, W. G. Thompson, Jackson; State High Junior Warden, Samuel Shellfish, Detroit; Represcutatives to the Supremo High Court of the World, Dr. J. J. Mulheron and James A. Randall, Detroit. One Lyster, confined in the jall at Grand Rapids for counterfeiting the coin of the Republic, cut through a wall a lew days ago and escaped. The Wesleyan Methodist Conference, lately in sesaion at Hickory Corners, Barry County, approved the following appointments for the ensuing year: Ada, O. H. Johnson; Barry, J. L. Rush; liatnvia and Noble, .1. B. Sellick; Bcdforri, J. Btirke; Campholl, H. C. Hurlbut; Cadillac, B. C. ltobhins: Coldwater, H. A. Dny; l'oopisrsviUe and Six Corners, C. U. Fero; Clayton, L. J. Eymer; IHmningvillc and Little Allegan, L. I). lthnads; Howard ana Ensley, T. N. ulier: Flint, L. M. Wright; Ganges and Lakotown, Wui. Waterman: Grand Rapids, C. L. Preston; Ounl'lainsand Brook, .J. A. Cairas; Greenwood llissinn, T. Embree; Hart, 1!. H. Boss; Hurtwick, H. D. Chimey; Hopkina, W. H. Ross; Huron and liomulus. Harvoy Johnson; Holland and Ottawa, V. M. Thomson; Inirham, E. W. Bruce; Kensington and lirighton, Joel Martin and A. S. Bunnell; Lconi and Spring Arbor, lsaiah Martin; Meridian, J. Bl.ss. Midland, J. H. Lewis;MilHroiik, A. W. House; Nowayeo Mi88i0n, Wm. Kelly; New Haven and Hailetqn, h. N. Wrijfht; Ottawa, W. Wing and D. Milue; Pipestono, Edwin Potter; Pittsford, H. II. Bemont; Saginaw, Wm. Cross; Sobawa, E. T. Cray; Shiawassoe, h. O. and M. J. Bonney; Tittabawassee, Hugh Braoelin; Tuscola, w. H. Harrison; ïompkins and Sandstone, tí. Sinitb; WhCHtlund, Moscs Cuthbert; White Hall, O. Tapley; White Uiver, SilasBowker- S. M. Kidder; Wright, L. E. .lessen: Walton. H. H. tíains; H. D. Inmnn, conference evangelist; John Lcvingtnn, conference evangelist and lecturer; Amos P. Johnson, evaiwelistie and temporáneo work ; loft to select their own tlclds of labor, C. M. Preston, S. A. Gerry, Miles Flsk, J. U. Martin, A N Hiulson. W. P. Martin, G. W. Towneentl, J Pixley, L. Stowell; D. A. lüchards, to labor in California; Licentiates unemployecl, W. T. Preston, A. J. Koot, W. H. Eurl, II. Munn; ministors on the unstationed list, J. W. Collins, A. Maxwell, S. P. Kice, II. Sutton, G. Fairchild, Ira West; miseionary at largo, D. Iteynolds. TnE other evenin? a flreman named Bert Conners, on the G. R. & I. Railroad, was suddcnly 6eized by a fit oí insanity while the train was in motion. A few miles above Kalamazoo, coming south, he stripped himself of his coat and vest and threw them into the fire-box. A watch, worth about $40, and a loaded pistol followed after, and, fiually, a small Bible, after having placed fifty cents carefully between the leaves, suffered the same íate. The engineer was íinally able to subdue him, the train was stopped, and he was taken back into the caboose and taken care of UU the train arrived at Kalamazoo, When he was taken to jail for safe keeplug. Louis St. John, while attempting to get on a freijfbt train on the Michigan Central Road at West Branch the otlier night, feil beneath the wheels, and one leg was crushed and the foot on the other mangled. His injuries are probably fatal. Mike Donnellt's house at Grand Rapids was burned a few mornings ago. Loss $2,000. James Quinn, a sailor on the schooner Challenge, feil overboard, off Ludington, the other morning, and was drowned. The re was a strong northwest wind blowing at the time, and a heavy sea running, so that the best and only thing they could do was to run on and secure the services of a tug. The tug Aldrich and the life boat put out immediately and cruised about for an hour, but without onding any trace of the man. A Detkoit woman had her boy of ten ycars arraigned in the Pólice Court, and wanted him sent to the Reform School for stealmg five cents from his aunt. The boy wanted to go, but the Justice declined to commit him. There wasn't a couple in Northern Michigan so hard up and cheeky as to bc married at the Grand Rapids Fair - and take forty acres of land lor doing it. A Miohigan-made grind6tone was shipped from Detroit for Maine one flay lately. It weighed 6,172 pouuds. Tiik school population of East Saginaw is 5,S85 and ia Bay City 5,411. Detuoit public schools have 12,629 pupils an ulerease oí 600 over laat ycar. A ïokoe of skilled workmen direct from Wales have arrived at Hancock, and will be engacd in cold rolling copper. Drijixo the riscal ycar endtpg September 30 thé bomled debt of the Stilte n;is mlurcil $8,000 bv the puyment of Sault Canal bonds for that amount whkh had fallen due July 1, IST'.i. The present condition of the debt is statcd bclow, but to offset thore are $300,000 of United States i)4 Per cent. bonds in the sinking fund, and a.still larger sum in banka and hearing interest. The entire debt of $905,149.9J could be paid at short notice if the owners of the bonds would consent to take the money, but the best offers they will make afe ten to twenty per cent. premium, which is regarde! as too much. The inturestbeariug bonds are $800,000. The non-interest hearing debt is $ 15, 14'J. U7. Total bonded debt, $9J5, 140.97. TiiHfolIowing are the Detroit wheat quotations: Wheat, No. 1 White, 97@97)c; No. 3 White, íA]4(iiVyi October, do, 9?J@97$íc; November, do, 963@96Jc; December, do, 9X@97Xc; No. 2 Red, 97#@SW%c. A young lady who says she is young and handsome writes: " The man for me to love is vastly my superior; a man who will compel my spirit to benei its knee to his; who will command my soul to stand still and shine on him, as Joshua coiumanded the sun; who can trample my will to the dust," etc. Slie slumld have no diiiieuky in linding such a man - one who will not only command her soul to stand still, but who will also command its owner to get up tirst in the niorning to build the firc, split kindlings and carry up the coal, and whose language will make her hair stand on end when he comes home and linds dinner lifteen minutos late. There ure Iota of men who will bend her spirit for her, and also make her back bend over a wash-tub while they go down to the saloon and diseuss the best method of saving the country from the hands of its politica] eneiuies. - Norrisioin Ilerakl. Artii.leky was lirst used in Meld warfare at the Imttle of Creesy, August 20, l.'iHi, wliere t he Kngiish bowiöen wera drauu up in Ihe fonii of a hunoni. wilh small bom-biirds bet ween them, whioh threw little iron balls to frighten the I horses.